Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1917 — Signs of Peace Fail to Loom Up. [ARTICLE]

Signs of Peace Fail to Loom Up.

Premier Lloyd George and the chancellor of the exchequer, Andrew Bonar Law, were the principal speakers at an imposing demonstration in Albert Hall Monday afternoon to inaugurate the autumn campaign for national econoipy. After drawing a comparison between th® extravagances of war time and peace time and making a plea for economy, the premier said: “The way to shorten the war is to prepare as if the struggle were going to last a Jong time. lam not going to predict when the end of th.e war will come—no man in his senseswould prolong it one hour if there were an opportunity for a real and lasting peace. But it must be a lasting peace. It must not be a peace which would be a prelude to a new and more devastating war. “I have been scanning the horizon anxiously and cannot see any terms in sight which would lead to a lasting peace. I feel that the only terms which are possible now would be terms w'hich would end in an armed truce. I will say, an armed truce ending in an even more frightful struggle. This war is terrible beyond ®ll. But terrible as it is in itself, it is still more terrible in the possibilities it has revealed of new horror. “I ask those who are pressing:— should there be any—for a premature peace, to. reflect for a moment what might happen if we made an unsatisfactory settlement—all the best scientific brains in ' the land, stimulated by national rivalry, national hatred, national hopes, devoting their energies for ten, twenty, thirty years, to magnify the destructive powers of those horrible agents, whose power is only just disclosed. We must settle this once for all.”